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Time::gmtime(3pm)                     Perl Programmers Reference Guide                     Time::gmtime(3pm)



NAME
       Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function

SYNOPSIS
        use Time::gmtime;
        $gm = gmtime();
        printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
           (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm->wday() ];

        use Time::gmtime w(:FIELDS;
        printf "The day in Greenwich is %s\n",
           (qw(Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun))[ gm_wday() ];

        $now = gmctime();

        use Time::gmtime;
        use File::stat;
        $date_string = gmctime(stat($file)->mtime);

DESCRIPTION
       This module's default exports override the core gmtime() function, replacing it with a version that
       returns "Time::tm" objects.  This object has methods that return the similarly named structure field
       name from the C's tm structure from time.h; namely sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday, yday, and
       isdst.

       You may also import all the structure fields directly into your namespace as regular variables using
       the :FIELDS import tag.  (Note that this still overrides your core functions.)  Access these fields
       as variables named with a preceding "tm_" in front their method names.  Thus, "$tm_obj->mday()" cor-responds corresponds
       responds to $tm_mday if you import the fields.

       The gmctime() function provides a way of getting at the scalar sense of the original CORE::gmtime()
       function.

       To access this functionality without the core overrides, pass the "use" an empty import list, and
       then access function functions with their full qualified names.  On the other hand, the built-ins are
       still available via the "CORE::" pseudo-package.

NOTE
       While this class is currently implemented using the Class::Struct module to build a struct-like
       class, you shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR
       Tom Christiansen



perl v5.8.8                                      2001-09-21                                Time::gmtime(3pm)